Is It OK to Install Video Cameras in Taxicabs?

Wuhu City in Anhui Province initiated a program to install GPS video surveillance and alarm systems in taxicabs across the city in August.It is projected that all of the city's 3,024 cabs will be equipped with security cameras by mid-October.Wuhu is not alone in adopting such a system.Several other Chinese cities,including Chongqing,Xi'an and Nanchang,have engaged in a similar campaign.     

Is It Fair to Expel ‘Overdue’ Students?

On August 30, the Graduate School of Huazhong University of Science and Technology announced it would expel students who were taking too long to complete advanced degrees. The relevant regulations say completing a master's degree shouldn't take longer than four years and a doctor's degree eight.     

Is It Time to Popularize E-Schoolbags?

Inthe past two years,some schools in cities including Beijing and Shanghai have intro-duced tablet computers with e-textbooks installed into classes. Students do     

Why Does China Postpone The Retirement Age?

China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has recently revealed it is working with the relevant authorities on ways to reform the nation's existing retirement system,once again broaching a subject which in the past has already stirred up much public debate.The average life expectancy of Chinese people in 2019 reached 77.3.     

Is It Right to Exempt Failed Reformers?

On August 9, the government of Wuhan,in central China’s Hubei Province, ap-proved the management regulations for thecity’s Donghu Hi-tech Development Zone.One clause in the document has stirred     

Is It Time to Acknowledge Dual Nationality?

正Whether China should adopt the dual nationality policy was again mentioned in this year's sessions of the National People's Congress of China (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). The current Nationality Law of China does not recognize dual nationality. Article 8 says that a person whose application for naturalization as a Chinese national has been approved shall not retain foreign nationality, while Article 9 states that any Chinese national who has settled abroad and who has been naturalized as a foreign national, or has acquired foreign nationality of his own free     

Is It Necessary to Cultivate Lottery Masters?

正On June 2, Beijing Normal University announced the founding of the National Lottery Development Institute (NLDI), a scientific research institution on lottery studies, which offers master's degrees in the subject.     

Is It Time to Cancel Class Councils?

正In China's primary and middle schools as well as colleges, every class has its class council which is composed of several student members in charge of affairs such as study, publicity, sports, organization, helping teachers with general class management work. In a primary school in Chengdu, south-     

Is It Good to Abolish Test Rankings?

The Ministry of Education (MOE)recently released a draft document on the protection of minors. Several of its sections barring primary and middle schools from ranking students based on their examination scores have so far triggered heated debate, particularly among parents with school-going children.     

Is It Necessary to Reconstruct the Yuanmingyuan?

<正>On November 16, 2011, the Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports Committee of Beijing Municipal People’s Congress put forward nine proposals on the city’s cultural development, one of which was to reconstruct the Yuanmingyuan, an imperial garden in the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911)also known as the Old Summer Palace, which was looted and burnt down by     

Is It Time to Charge Vehicle Emission Fees?

Recent reports show that Beijing might levy pollutant discharge fees on automobiles.Gas stations will add the fee onto existing prices.Every liter of gas will require an approximate 2 yuan($0.32)charge.The current oil price in the capital is about 7 yuan($1.11),which means it may jump to 10 yuan($1.59)per liter.     

Is It Time to Cancel GDP Growth Targets?

At a recent high-level economic symposium,the question of whether or not countries should set GDP growth targets became a hot topic of debate.Some economists pointed out that all of the world's developed countries and the majority of middleincome countries have abandoned GDP growth rates as a target of macroeconomic control.Should China follow suit?The practice of using GDP as a key measure of economic development is not flawless,and some experts therefore suggest it be abandoned.However,others believe the GDP index still has a role to play in China's economy,that doing away with it would impact wide-ranging aspects of Chinese society,and that identifying a substitute index is problematic.     

Women’s Voices Heard

HOU Zhiming has been listening to women’s voices on the hotline that she monitors for almost 15 years. As Hou says, “The many calls I receive each day are about love and marriage, sexual harassment, domestic violence, employ-ment, and psychological problems.”     

Is It Time to Reduce Penalties for Drunk Driving?

正In the past six years,drunk driving has been strictly classified as a criminal offense in China,even if no accident is caused,as long as drivers exceed the limit of 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood.In a recently issued guideline,however,the Supreme People’s Court states that if the offense is not so serious,drivers will not necessarily be criminalized.     

Is It Appropriate to Quote Classic Works in Court?

When a Beijing resident surnamed Zhang signed a property transaction agreement with his mother, she refused to pay for the house.Zhang’s mother, a 85-year-old woman surnamed Lu, sued her for breaking the     

Is It Time to Reform the Dual-Track Pension System?

正Civil servants’pensions is an issue that has long been debated in China.In spite of the fact that pensions for enterprise employees have been rising continuously for the past seven years,their benefits are much lower than that of their civil servant peers.There exists an increasingly widening gap between civil servants’pensions and those of other workers.Recently,the microblog account of the newspaper People’s Daily published an article,which says that civil servants’pensions sur-     

Is It Feasible to Levy a Tax on Robots?

<正>Are robots eating up human posts?The answer seems to be"yes"in some manufacturing sectors,as robots have not only led to the disappearance of some posts,but are also forcing lower wages on human laborers.In this situation,anti-artificial intelligence(AI)activists say people can no longer turn a blind eye to the negative effects of automation.